Category: Social Issues

Recently US Representative Steve King of Iowa asked, out of what I think we can assume is a genuine and unfaked ignorance, “where did any other subgroup of people contribute more to civilization [than Western...

The late, great Octavia Butler was best-known as a rare black female superstar in a genre –science-fiction –largely dominated by white men. One of her most famous and influential books, however, was not science-fiction...

I’m not often a fan of essayist Joel Stein, the man who introduced narcissistic reportage into modern mainstream journalism. This week, however, his column on Trump in Time Magazine (June 6, 2016) was surprisingly...

When President Obama was elected for the first time in 2008, it had a psychological impact on the black American community independent of any of his policies or official acts. Here was someone succeeding...

More than one recent commentator has noted presidential candidate Donald Trump’s similarities, both stylistic and substantive, to dictators of the past and present. It’s no surprise when Russia embraces a old-school strongman like Putin,...

Checking in with our pals at Wisecrack’s 8 Bit Philosophy brings us this gem of a video, critiquing Donald Trump through the lens of French critical theory and Greek philosophy, as presented through the...